The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s mandate letters to his cabinet fell under an exemption of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) on Friday. The request for the mandate letters by a journalist from the Canadian news outlet Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC) was denied by Ontario’s [...]
A US federal judge prohibited the practice of separating migrant children from their families for eight years on Friday following a settlement that will allow migrant children and their families, who were separated at the US-Mexico border, to be reunited. The “Mrs. L” deal, the result of a lawsuit against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement [...]
20,000 protestors marched and braved the cold in Brussels on Sunday after the Belgian climate activist group Climate Coalition called on politicians and leaders to take action urgently to limit harm from climate change. While this year’s protest was smaller than last year’s, it was held decidedly during the United Nations’ COP 28 climate summit in [...]
A US district judge denied former US President Donald Trump’s subpoena for “missing materials.” Trump’s Motion for Pretrial Rule 17(c) Subpoena requested seven non-party individuals which included records from the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol. Trump was seeking to subpoena Representative Bennie Thompson, chairman of the [...]
The suspect in the Burlington, Vermont shooting that left three Palestinian-American men wounded pleaded not guilty after he was arrested early Monday morning by the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). The shooting occurred at 6:25 p.m. Saturday near the University of Vermont. The Burlington Police Department released a statement Sunday identifying [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Monday reinstated a lawsuit alleging a Florida school district failed to meet disabled students’ right to a free and appropriate public education under the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). After a US district court blocked the suit based on [...]
Approximately 85,000 protestors marched against climate change in Amsterdam on Sunday, 10 days before Dutch voters head to the polls for the country’s general election. The March for Climate and Justice was organized by the Dutch Climate Crisis Coalition, which wants to ring the alarm on the climate crisis. The group states: The climate crisis [...]
